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The TRIL Centre’s BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform: An Open, Shareable Hardware and Software System

Publisher: 
Technology Research for Independant Living
Date published: 
24 April, 2008
Region: 
International
Publication type: 
research

The TRIL Centre’s BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform: An Open, Shareable Hardware and Software System

BioMOBIUS fact sheet

In a clinical laboratory in St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, an older woman walks along a mat that is embedded with motion sensors. The woman, who has experienced a recent fall, is also wearing several wireless sensors that monitor her heart rate and the motion of her limbs as she walks across the room. Small video cameras placed around the room also track her movement.

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